This essay reviews the decline of male fortunes and prospects over the
past half century and how the diminished masculine condition found
expression in the emergence of Donald Trump’s candidacy and
presidency.

This panoramic novel takes its title character from first sense impression to his last breath. In the course of a long lifetime, Jonathan Force is chafed out of his boyhood spiritual connectedness to place and kindred souls to become a disciplined intellect--in time an internationally revered social pundit who is able both to illuminate and predict dominant social developments. His books --Force Fields, The Uses of Force-- become so influential the public comes to think as much with his ideas as about them. In late mid-life he experiences a revelation that will cause him to abandon his famous pundit persona altogether. He flees to anonymity and great personal satisfaction as a kind of hermit in Key West, refinding the connection to the ultimate he had lost as a boy, while transcending material reality altogether.

Subtitled "a novel in fugue," Greeves Passing interweaves the voices of headmaster John Greeve, his wife Margaret, and their estranged son Brian as each struggles in mind and heart to come to terms with what their embattled lives have meant. Told together, their stories bring to a wrenching conclusion Hawley's Headmaster's Papers, published to critical acclaim three decades ago.

When married people fall in love with others, trouble--guilt, shame, family wreckage--inevitably follows, but so sometimes is the exploration of new psychic territory an occasion to awaken to the full possibilities of life. This novel suggests that with courage, humility and a measure of grace, even forbidden love can find a way.

Now entering its third century of continuous operation, The Linsly School is the oldest learning institution of any kind in West Virginia, founded before West Virginia was a state. This bicentennial history charts the school's course through protean changes as it adapted to and recovered from plague, flooding, ruinous economic hardship and unsettling cultural developments - very much in the spirit of its founder who left in his will a charge for the nascent school to move ever "forward and no retreat."

I Can Learn From You:
Boys as Relational Learners(Harvard Education Press, 2014,
with Michael Reichert)

Prescriptions for teaching practice derived from the authors' international study of the kinds of teacher-student relationships that enable boys, including resistant boys, to thrive in school.

An extended reflection on the nature of human soulfulness: how soulfulness, properly understood, informs our desire for romantic and erotic fulfillment, our need for sustaining friendship, our place in organizational life, and our inevitable experiences of failure and loss.

For Whom the Boy Toils:
The Primacy of Relationship
in Boys' Learning(International Boys' Schools Coalition, 2013, with Michael Reichert)

A discussion of how productive teacher-student relationships are established with boys, based on findings from the authors' international study of relational accounts from boys and teachers in The US, Great Britain, South Africa, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Other World(Short Story Press, 2013)

A cycle of short stories in which a boy's sense of deep spiritual connectedness to a prior reality is experienced—and imperiled—as he grows from early infancy to young manhood.

An account of a remarkably spirited and very independent school for boys in the rural hills of western Pennsylvania. Kiski's story illustrates the themes and practices that have advanced all-boys schooling at its best. The story also includes the careers of several of the most distinctive headmasters in the nation's history.

An isolated, semi-orphaned midwestern boy grows up believing he is a God-man in the eastern Yogic tradition. Is his condition the result of excruciating wounds over the course of his childhood, or is this this an authentic spiritual transformation--the real thing?

Reaching Boys/Teaching
BoysStrategies That Work and Why
(Wiley/Jossey Bass, 2010)

Co-authored with Michael Reichert, Ph.D.

An analysis, featuring hundreds of examples, of teaching practices, including complete lessons, proven to work with boys. The data was collected from schools worldwide, and the findings include comments from the boys themselves as to what and why they found specific teaching and teachers effective. Michael Thompson, psychologist and leading writer on the plight of contemporary boys (Raising Cain) commented that Reaching Boys/Teaching Boys "is the best, most practical book about teaching boys that I have ever read."

The findings and analysis of what teachers of boys and boys
themselves reported as their most effective lessons in the course of their
schooling. Faculties and boys from eighteen schools from the USA, Canada,
Great Britain, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand participated in
this study. The extent and substance of what teachers report here combine
to cast important new light on what many see as an educational crisis
in educating contemporary boys.

Twenty-One
Visits to a Darkly
Sun-Tanned Angel(Dog Ear Press, 2009)

A connected cycle of poems exploring an extended encounter
with an actual angel, in the course of which the angelic condition, human
mortality, the nature of sex, and questions of ultimate meaning are explored
in both playful and intensely serious ways.

An extended reflection on the perilous condition of contemporary
boys, including the considered opinion that today's boys are pressed by
a number of cultural factors into a spirit-crippling "imposture"
which deadens their experience as it diminishes their potential contributions
to the world.

Subtitled “Reflections on a World Fit for Children,”
this collection of essays discusses topical social issues—political
correctness, drugs, commercial excesses, and other aspects of popular
culture—as they bear on schooling and children.

A School Answers Back:
Responding to Student Drug Use
(The American Council on Drug Education, 1983)

This book draws on a wide variety of contemporary findings on the effects of drugs on adolescent development to chart a course for early recognition and prevention of harmful drug involvement school-wide.

An anthology of coming of age stories set in 19th and 20th century schools.
Sequenced chronologically, these excerpts from notable school fiction
begin with chapters from TOM BROWN’S SCHOOL DAYS and JANE EYRE and
continue through the likes of TEA AND SYMPATHY and SEPARATE PEACE. Richard
Hawley introduces the collection with an extended introductory essay,
and shorter commentaries precede each selection.